QUNO New York newsletter from June 2012.

Features articles on:

• New Directions: Exploring Alternatives for a Peaceful Solution in Somalia
• Letter from the Director
• The joint QUNO Review
• Consolidating Peace in Liberia and Sierra Leone
• Sixth World Conference of Friends
• Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
• Update from QUNO Geneva
• Meet Elisabeth
• PA Corner

PeaceBuilding from the Ground Up - preventing and reducing armed violence, Comunidad Segura Good Practices Magazine, Year II, Number 4.

This paper aims to demonstrate that peacebuilding initiatives can be led by local rather than international players and that this approach can work successfully on a large scale. The paper summarises four peacebuilding initiatives, all more or less locally led, which have operated on a large scale, and which have had real impact in ending violent conflict. It sets out steps that could be taken to move from current practice, in which local capacity for peacebuilding is viewed as marginal, to one where it is regarded as a central element of any strategy for managing conflict.